Caroline May 6 February 2025. Zehra Kazmi, School of English Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? I have recently submitted my thesis titled, “Indo-Muslim Nostalgia: Memory, Modernity and the Nation”. It examines historical memory and nostalgia in South Asian Muslim writing within the context of sectarian violence and cultural disintegration following … Read more
In September 2024, the Centre for Memory Studies at IIT Madras hosted the Indian Network for Memory Studies conference on “Memory, Security, and Sustainability”. The three-day conference brought together scholars to explore how memory intersects with questions of security, ecological responsibility, technological change, and collective futures. Its interdisciplinary focus opened up discussions on remembrance and … Read more
22 October 2022Lucy Szemetová (PhD Student in the Department of Film Studies) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research interrogates the relationship between memory politics and audio-visual archives, with a particular focus on the reuse of archival footage in documentary films in Hungary. I am particularly interested in … Read more
24 February 2022Dr Karen Brown, School of Art History. Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Karen: I specialise in the social role of museums, with particular focus on community museums and ecomuseums in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. My research involves extensive collaboration with diverse museum communities, mainly … Read more
13 October 2021Prof. Nicki Hitchcott, School of Modern Languages. Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Nicki: My current research has three strands, all of them focused on Memory Studies and Rwanda: First, I am interested in creative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, looking at how the genocide is … Read more
